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Howard Kohr, longtime AIPAC director, announces retirement

Under Kohr’s leadership, AIPAC has traversed five presidencies, and the launch of political action committees aimed in part at stemming the rise of the Israel-critical left among Democrats.

New York Jets star Sauce Gardner says his ‘intentions were positive’ when he said that Jews ‘run the world’

Gardner said he did not know that he was echoing a common antisemitic trope.

The view of a campus from across a lagoon

UC Santa Barbara, where Jewish student president was accused of supporting ‘genocide,’ is subject of new Title VI investigation

A Baltimore-area school district is also the subject of a new investigation this week.

Culture

Modi, a comedian popular with Orthodox crowds, has a new special. He wants non-Jews to watch, too.

Global

What’s behind Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ‘firm’ support for Hamas?

U.K. Home Secretary James Cleverly, pictured on March 6, 2024 in London. (Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Global

UK authorities investigating alleged mistreatment of Israeli Oct. 7 survivors by airport security

Two conservative pundits behind the desk of a talk show

Politics

Ben Shapiro’s split with Candace Owens reflects how Israel and antisemitism are also dividing the right

First responders tackle a fire at the Nevele Grand Hotel, near the Catskills town of Ellenville, March 19, 2024. (Courtesy/Eric Helgesen)

New York

The Borscht Belt is burning: In the Catskills, abandoned resorts keep catching fire

Culture

Steven Spielberg decries ‘machinery of extremism’ on campus and laments Israel-Hamas war deaths at USC ceremony honoring Holocaust survivors

Culture

Jews have always been prolific writers. Has AI wound up with too much of their work?

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